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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 9 – August 16, 2023 167 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 Get it by email ↓
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Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

Back-to-school season is a great time for kids to get an eye exam, doctors say, specially since school screenings can miss kids with vision problems.

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Business 6 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

  2. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

  3. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

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  1. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

  2. I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

  3. How to access BNN Bloomberg’s business coverage as Meta blocks news in Canada - BNN Bloomberg

Sports 4 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. How a startup loses its spark

  2. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

  3. Why Tailwind CSS Won

Technology 138 stories

  1. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  2. I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

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  1. Vim Boss

  2. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

  3. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

  4. Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

  5. Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

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  1. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

  2. Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser

  3. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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